Stupid Pcs that roll high

[Graybeard]

I have a Sorcerer in one of my games I've been playing for awhile. He is 11th level now. My rolls for him were varied unless I really needed to make a save. Then I woould roll high. After a number of rolls like this, I decided to take that PC into the Fatespinner PRC. It seemed like a natural fit.

 

[Greylock]

Law of Averages, hmmm. Maybe tonight...

Heh.

Tonight was a tale of two crits.

First was in a set piece, long range battle with several orcs and a Giant that alsih20 set upon our band of adventurers. In a mildly heroic battle, my fighter was felled. By a massive crit from the Giant. First AoO did some 23 hp damage, from which I thought my guy recovered nicely, doling out a smidgeon in return. Then the Giant critted me, for 49 points damage. Unfortunately my guy only had 47 hp total.

Long story short, we were handed a quest to ressurrect my fighter. Kill the Hydra. Difficult battle ahead.

Kill the Hydra.

We went in head first, caution to the wind. Barbarian Elf rushed in, Druid prepped spells, Rogue peppered arrows, my mounted Fighter said to heck with it all and charged.

Finally, for the love of gawd, finally.... I FREAKIN' ROLLED A CRIT! Mounted charge, with the lance Aneirin somewhat eschews. I rolled a freakin' CRIT! Wahooo! 66 hp damage with one blow.

I'm a happy boy tonight...

And Aneirin rides again.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Once. I have rolled a crit once. In a year. Just one.

I think that, if you invest effort in improving the crit range, you crit slightly more often than the extending of the range would account for. Then again, it may just be that it feels like it happens more often.

Amusingly enough, tonight the d6s were hot. I was consistently rolling in the 40s for damage on 10d6, which meant I had a nice 70-point empowered fireball. Then again, later I paid for it on initiative rolls. Oy.

Brad

 

[Greylock]

I think that, if you invest effort in improving the crit range, you crit slightly more often than the extending of the range would account for.

Right. It's going to be a bit yet before my fighter gets his next feat, but I've already been torn about what to take. Improved Crit, or Iron Will? I truly have been scratching my noodle over this'n a while.

 

[argo]

One player in my group has what we have come to call "Bipolar Dice". His dice are perfectly statistically average: he rolls nothing but 20's and 1's

For example take, oh I don't know, last night's session. He starts off by rolling something like a 17 to hit, not bad, this is then followed on the next round by a 1. Round after that he rolls a 20 and confirms it, round after that is another 1 I'm not done yet, next attack is a 18 then a 3 then he rolls a nat 20 followed by a nat 20 on the confirmation roll and a 19 to confirm his insta-kill! Round after that he rolls a 5.

And this is not the first time I've seen him get a 20-20-confirm insta-kill either! Once in a SW campaign the GM had his second level force adept meet a hig-level NPC from the Darkside sourcebook. The guy was supposed to slap around this player's character a bit and see what he was made of. First round the player wins initative and 20-20-confirm insta-kills the NPC! Two sessions later he rolls poorly in a combat, is knocked out and thrown out of an airlock (luckily it was in atmosphere, unluckily it was two miles up in atmosphere). The player is totally zen about the whole thing too, he is ready to save the day or die horribly at any given time.

Bipolar Dice I tell you


As for myself, I don't have espically bad luck as a player but I can't remember the last time I actually rolled a crit much less a nat 20 in combat as a player. But as a DM I get at least one or two nat 20's a session! I actually use a different die for my Dm'ing than I do for playing, I like to think that I am building up karma in it or something.

Later.

 

[Greylock]

No, no, no, no, no, no....

It's not the same when you're a DM. Not fair, not fair at all. You get to roll whenever the heck you feel like it, whether it's warranted or not. No fair...

FWIW, my game's distinguished, resplendent and most hallowed DM rolled several 20's, followed by 1's, or similarly non-majestic numbers in last nights game. He is most humble and generous to his players. But, his dice sought to teach my character a lesson last night, and I shall not soon forget it.